THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DIFFICULTY.
The rivalry between Japan hud China with regard to ?orea is of long standing. Chiua has always claimed that Corea is a tributory State ; Japan's contention is that there ia a closer affinity between the Japanese and the Corenns than between the latter and the Chinese, and that Japanese influence should be paramount. Thus the Coreau Minister*, instead of being Conservative or Liberal, as in Great Britain, are pro« Chinese or pro- Japanese as the case nmy be. Ten years ugo, the Chinese, parly being in power, the pro-Japanese got up a rebellion and overthrew the Government by violence The lead or of the insurgents wna ono Kirn who had been Corea n Minister to Japan. Kirn miscalculate! bis campaign Be only hold power for twenty four hours, at the end of which period bin fellow-conspira-tors were massacred and he had difficulty in making his escape to Japan. The proChinese party came into office and have held it uver nince
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 25, 30 July 1894, Page 2
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166THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DIFFICULTY. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 25, 30 July 1894, Page 2
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